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title: פָּלִיל — judge · The Tanakh dictionary
description: פָּלִיל (6414), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: judge. BDB 1906: n.m. judge. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# פָּלִיל

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«פָּלִיל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **judge** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 6414 · **BDB:** פָּלִיל

### Glosses

assessments (2); judges (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

judge [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6414/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. judge [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6414/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. judge; pl. פְּלִילִים Dt 32:31 our enemies being judges, umpires; עָוֹן פ׳ Jb 31:11, read עֲוֹן פ׳ according to Di Siegf, cf. De; עָוֹן פְּלִילִי as v 28, so Bu Du; בִּפְלִלִים Ex 21:22, read perhaps בַּנְּפָלִים for the abortion Bu ZAW xi (1891), 107, cf. also Di-Ry.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «פָּלִיל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6414/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 31:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.11/)

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כִּי־הִ֥יא זִמָּ֑ה וְ֝ה֗וּא עָוֺ֥ן פְּלִילִֽים׃

*Word for word:* (dm) it \[is\].wickedness and it \[is\].iniquity judges

*JPS 1917:* For that were a heinous crime; yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

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[Deuteronomy 32:31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.31/)

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כִּ֛י לֹ֥א כְצוּרֵ֖נוּ צוּרָ֑ם וְאֹיְבֵ֖ינוּ פְּלִילִֽים׃

*Word for word:* (dm) not \[is\].like rock our rock their and enemies our assessments

*JPS 1917:* For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

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